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Title: | The Politics of Liberalizing Zambia's Maize Markets |
Author: | Pletcher, James |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | World Development |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 129-142 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | economic policy marketing maize Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00120-5 |
Abstract: | In 1991 Zambia embarked on a dual transition, that is, simultaneous political and economic liberalization. This paper first shows that the country suffers from many problems associated with dual transitions. Against this background, the paper analyses the process of maize market liberalization in Zambia. The central argument is that maize markets have been more quickly and fully liberalized than maize input markets because the perceived political risks of liberalizing input markets are greater than those of liberalizing maize markets, and because economic interest groups benefited from maize liberalization while similar interests benefited from continued government interventions in input markets. These findings imply that in order to understand the prospects for economic liberalization in new democracies both civil society and markets must be disaggregated. Bibliogr., note, sum. |